"Deutsche Grammophon's 2010 reissue of Mikhail Pletnev's recordings of the symphonies & major orchestral works of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky is a seven-disc trimline box set that presents the music in a logical fashion & meets expectations of what this admired conductor can do. Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra with confidence & clearheaded thinking, & his interpretations of Tchaikovsky definitely lean to the rational side of Romanticism: as passionate & emotional as the works are in the public imagination, Pletnev always remembers that Tchaikovsky was at heart a classicist, so he is careful not to neglect the formal concerns & gracefulness of melody that are the soul of the music."